YouTube has released their official celebrity-studded mashup of all the biggest videos of the year.

I have picked Jenna Marbles for this picture...because I can actually recognize her.

Back in the day, YouTube just hosted stuff, and it was up to the people who actually made videos to create end-of-the-year retrospectives of the most popular videos on the web. No more! YouTube is a big, commercial entertainment network now, and nothing hammers that point home harder than YouTube Rewind, which features dozens of YouTube celebrities (and Jimmy Kimmel, whose presence means you should trust nothing you see in this video) getting paid to recreate the stuff that amateurs and megastars like Nicki Minaj created over the year. You should make sure to check out the credits at the end to see who everyone in the video was (I've also posted the cast list at the bottom of the article), but in the meantime, enjoy this extremely high-production-value trip through short-term memory lane as you re-live all the joyously wasted minutes of 2014.

If you're feeling a little confused, don't worry. YouTube Rewind has a playlist of all the top videos, so you can go back and figure out exactly what you missed in 2014. They also put out this Behind The Scenes video, so you can see all your favorite vloggers just hanging out and being friends and generally making you feel left out of the Internet.

If all this hasn't satisfied your nostalgia cravings, check out the Rewind videos for 2013.

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And now, without further ado, the long list of famous YouTube stars who were in this video and make you feel out of touch (in alphabetical order):